June 1999 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Memoirs | Literary biography | Fiction by Women | Ficton by men Memoirs Christopher Hitchens Despite Those Eyelashes, He Blew It Some Times in America By Alexander Chancellor Literary biography Kathryn Hughes Best Account We Have George’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W B Yeats By Brenda Maddox Fiction by Women Candia McWilliam Should Win the Prize Everything You Need By A L Kennedy D J Taylor Old Stench of Death Close Range By Annie Proulx LR Ficton by men Stephen Amidon Dog’s Tale Timbuktu By Paul Auster LR
Christopher Hitchens Despite Those Eyelashes, He Blew It Some Times in America By Alexander Chancellor
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